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,nA1m’s BOARDERS. 11
me at dinner! It's plain you'll never learn to run a boarding-
housel
K. I hope to gracious we never Wllll
Mas. B. However, what's done can’t be undone.
K. Especially chops.
Mus. R. I'll take as much of it as l (‘sill out of the dinner;
we cannot indulge in two feasts in one day. And yetetherei
t-‘mirker!
Born Grnns. Ah, yes, Smirker.
Mus. B. He's new, and he’s got to be considered-
GIR.Ls. Yes, certainly-considered.
Mas. B. For t.l1e tirst few days. l‘erl1nps, after all, the
breakfast was a good stroke! 1 like SI1lll'l(('l'.
G1nLs. We like Smirker.
MRS. B. He’s respectable, he's good looking, he’ stylish
and he's single! I trust you girls will make the most of him.
It does the house good to lune him lwttll coming up the steps
-such a style about him! l trust you asked him, last night,
to practice that new duet with you; Kitty.
K. Indeed. ldltl not, mother!
MRS. B. 1 never saw such a girl for throwing awav her
opportunities! Oh dear, this is not deciding what's to be for
dinner. Let me see!-l oughtnt to buy much to-day. That
leg of mutton that those lamb chops were cut off was boiled
for dinner esterday; cook saved the water it was boiled in,
an’ it'll malyrie lovely soup--there's enough for two kinds; Clem,
take your card and write: -
MENU; DINNER: THURSDAY, MARCH 1011;.
Then, there’s enough of the cold mutton left-I do the carving;
long practice has given me such a knack 1 can make a leg do
for twelve boarders an’ the rest of us, an’ still have plenty left
for hash for breakfast (but you didn’t think of the hash, girls)
to make chicken croquettes, an‘ they’rc always beautiful, for’
entrees. Now for the principal dish-the roast; it’s harder to
economize on that than ‘most anything, but I think I’ll have---
for a change--a beef stew, with plenty of potatoes.
CLEM. Had it twice last Week.
MRS. B. Well, that ain‘t this week! Three pounds 01
twelve-cent meat will do it. Oh. yes, I forgot the fish ;-
smelts ’ll do, tl1vy‘l'e at their cheapest now. Tapioca pudding,
plain, with custard sauce made out of cornest:11'cl1-apple-but
ter tarts-(llem, just look in the epergne an‘ see if there’s any
0‘ them wilted apples an’ sour oranges left, will you?-an black
coffee. I shafnt have to buy a thing but the three pounds of
beef! There that fills the mrte, Clem; now print it on that
little press of yours, and remember it makes up quite stylish
an’ genteel when you put it in French. Now read it overzu
you will print it. ,1‘
CLEH. (Reading from card in her hand.)
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